The analysis of product variant configuration management on bill of material and its faults

Abstract

Variability of customer demand drives businesses to grow their range of product portfolios to be able to adopt against the demand fluctuation however it pushes business boundaries to consider more integrated project and logistics control tools in order to be able to deliver and manage essential but crucial business processes as wells as balancing higher product complexity. In this thesis, it will be analyzed the critical success factors for business who uses integrated computer-aided (CAD-ERP, etc.) programs to control their design, production and after sales business functions. In this study, to reduce product complexity, a flexible structure that can respond quickly to customer demand, which was developed to create a variant of the configuration management system bill of material (BOM) structure and its effects on BOM failures are examined. 

Keywords

• Variant Configuration
• ERP
• Complex Products
• Bill of material
• Faults of BOM

Ürün varyant konfigürasyon yönetiminin ürün ağacı ve hataları üzerindeki etkilerinin incelenmesi

Abstract

Müşteri taleplerinin değişkenlik göstermesi işletmelerin karmaşık bir ürün yelpazesi oluşturmasına neden olmaktadır. Bu durum işletmelerin sipariş, tasarım, üretim süreçlerinde ürün ağacı yönetimini karmaşık bir hale getirmekte ve bu durum hataların oluşmasına neden olmaktadır. Bu nedenle işletmeler kullandıkları bilgisayar destekli (CAD-ERP vb) yazılımları müşteri taleplerine hızlı cevap verebilecek bir yapıya uygun bir hale getirmek zorunda kalmaktadır. Bu çalışmada ürün kompleksliğini azaltmak, müşteri taleplerine hızlı cevap verebilecek esnek bir yapı oluşturmak için
geliştirilmiş olan varyant konfigürasyon yönetim sisteminin ürün ağacı yapısı ve ürün ağacı hataları üzerindeki etkileri incelenmektedir.

Keywords

• Varyant Konfigürasyon
• ERP
• Kompleks Ürünler
• Ürün ağacı
• Ürün ağacı hataları

References

1. Kasper Edwards and Jørgen Lindgaard Pedersen “Product Configuration Systems-Implications for Product Innovation and Development” (2004)
2. Duray, Rebecca, Peter T. Ward, Glen W. Milligan, William L. Berry, “Approaches to mass customization: configurations and empirical validation”, Journal of Operations Management 18 (2000)
3. Hua, H., 2012. The application of the Assembly Data Management Model in manufacturing companies. Sanya, China, s.n. (2012)
4. Joy Batchelor, Henrik Reif Andersen “Bridging The Product Configuration Gap Between PLM and ERP – An Automotive Case Study” (2009)
5. Kashkoush, M. & ElMaraghy, H., Matching bills of materials using tree reconciliation. Procedia CIRP, Volume 7, p. 169 – 174 (2013)
6. Veen, E. A. V. & Wortmann, J. C., New Developments in Generative BOM Processing Systems. Production Planning & Control, 3(3), (1992)
7. Trappey, A. J. C., Peng, T.-K. & Lin, H.-D., an Object - Oriented Bill of Materials System for Dynamic Product Management. Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Volume 7, pp. 365-371. (1996)
8. Stephan Schwarze and Paul Schönsleben “Recent developments in the configuration of multiple-variant products: Application orientation and vagueness in customer requirements”- Institute of Industrial Engineering and Management (BWI) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zürich 1998,

9. Fazio, Gregory J.: Getting the Facts on Rule-Based Product Configuration, in: 1994 APICS Conference Proceedings, p.E12-E13.
10. Mannisto, T. “Towards Management of Evolution in Product Configuration Data Models. (1998)
11. Sembugamoorthy, V.; Chandrasekaran, B.: Functional Representation of Devices and Compilation of Diagnostic Problem-Solving Systems, in: Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, 1992, p.47-74.
12. SAP AG Release 4.6C “Variant Configuration (LO-VC)” Nisan 2001
13. SAP AG Managing Product Configuration in a High -Volume, Make-To-Order Environment (2007)
14. Uwe Blumöhr, Manfred Münch, Marin Ukalovic, SAP Press, “Variant Configuration with SAP” (2009)
15. http://global.sap.com/turkey/press.epx?pressid=4803-“Müşteriye özel ürün üreten, Ambalaj, Tekstil, Metal Kâğıt vb. Sektörler için bir Esnek Yapılandırma Modeli” İstanbul- Temmuz 07, 2005- Erişim tarihi: 14.11.2013
16. Frida Sandstrom “Product Structures and Product Configuration” Master’s thesis Lulea University of Technology, 2009
17. Stephan Schwartze “Configuration of Multiple variant products”, BWI, Zürich. (1996)
18. http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-25224 (18 Mart 2012) Erişim tarihi: 10.11.2013
19. Arun Prasad CR“http://www.slideshare.net/arun_bala1/variant-configuration-overview” Erişim tarihi: 12.10.2013